Bulldozer back

From European Voice's Entre-Nous column

7/11/07, 5:00 PM CET

Updated 4/23/14, 8:42 PM CET

The Independence/Democracy group has been reunited with its inflatable bulldozer, which was confiscated during the last European Council (Entre Nous, 21 June). Sadly the European Parliament refused the group permission to celebrate their good fortune by driving their bulldozer into the central courtyard of the assembly’s Strasbourg building.

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